Life Without Risks Is Not Worth Living.

Life Without Risks Is Not Worth Living.

Man Has Risen So Far Above All Other Species That He Competes In Ways Unique In Nature. He Fights By Means Of Complicated Weapons; He Fights For Ends Remote In Time.

After Reading ... Accounts ... Of Minor Accidents Of Light, It Is Little Wonder That The Average Man Would Far Rather Watch Someone Else Fly And Read Of The Narrow Escapes From Death When Some Pilot Has Had A Forced Landing Or A Blowout, Than To Ride Himself. Even In The Postwar Days Of Now Obsolete Equipment, Nearly All Of The Serious Accidents Were Caused By Inexperienced Pilots Who Where Then Allowed To Fly Or Attempt To Fly-without License Or Restrictions About Anything They Could Coax Into The Air.

The Essence Of Life, I Concluded, Did Not Lie In The Material. It Penetrated, But Was Not Bound To, The Physical World Of Science.

I Don't Believe In Taking Foolish Chances, But Nothing Can Be Accomplished If We Don't Take Any Chances At All.